James Sullivan

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

In 1977, NASA stowed a pair of gold-plated phonograph records on the two Voyager spacecraft missions to the outer reaches of our solar system. Organized by a committee led by the astronomer Carl Sagan, the records were a “message in a bottle” created to contact intelligent life on other planets, featuring greetings in dozens of languages, natural field recordings from Earth, and music by Bach, Beethoven, and Chuck Berry.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

When the Provincetown Art Association turned 50 in 1964, Newsweek covered the town’s changing art world. They dubbed it “tradition vs. ignition.”“It’s a town of voyeurs,” one unnamed artist told the magazine. “It’s impossible to do anything without half a dozen people watching.”More than 60 years removed from that observation, an intrepid group of locals has convened to stage the town’s inaugural Outsiders Festival, from May 8-11.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

No one accompanied Mo Amer when he attended his naturalization ceremony. More than 20 years after applying, the comedian finally got his US citizenship in 2009 in a school gymnasium, alongside hundreds of other applicants. Many immigrants say they are moved by the ceremony, with its oath of allegiance and those little American flags. But for Amer, who drove himself to the event — no friends, no family to celebrate with — there was little more than a sense of exhaustion.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

At the end of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” the over-the-top 2024 epic that he’d been trying to make for years, a title card presents the director’s proposed alternative to the Pledge of Allegiance. The verse calls not for allegiance to the flag, but to “the human family” and “all the species that we protect.” Not allegiance to one nation under God, but to “One Earth,” indivisible. The film, which is about power, corruption, and visionary ambition, is full of indulgences.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | James Sullivan

In 1990, the music photographer Eric Antoniou published a booklet of his portraits of Harvard Square street musicians. He printed 500 copies and nearly sold them all, mostly through Newbury Comics. He and his writing partner, Luke Hunsberger, printed the book in copy shops. “We didn’t have the right paper,” Antoniou recalled in a recent interview with the Globe.